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DEPARTMENT  OF 
SURVEYS  AND  EXHIBITS 
RUSSELL  SAGE  FOUNDATION 


ACTIVITIES  AND  PUBLICATIONS 


DEPARTMENT  OF  SURVEYS  AND  EXHIBITS 
RUSSELL  SAGE  FOUNDATION 

130  EAST  TWENTY-SECOND  STREET.  NEW  YORK  CITY 


RUSSELL  SAGE  FOUNDATION 

The  Russell  Sage  Foundation  was  incorporated  under  the  laws 
of  the  State  of  New  York  in  April,  1907.  The  endowment  is 
$10,000,000  given  by  Mrs.  Russell  Sage.  The  purpose  of  the 
Foundation,  as  stated  in  its  charter,  is  “the  improvement  of 
social  and  living  conditions  in  the  United  States  of  America.” 


TRUSTEES 

Mrs.  Russell  Sage,  President  Cleveland  H.  Dodge,  Treasurer 
Robert  W.  de  Forest,  Vice-President  Miss  Louisa  Lee  Schuyler 
John  H.  Finley  Mrs.  Finley  J.  Shepherd 

Mrs.  William  B.  Rice  Alfred  T.  White 

John  M.  Glenn,  Secretary  and  General  Director 


DEPARTMENT  OF  SURVEYS  AND  EXHIBITS 


Shelby  M.  Harrison,  Director 
E.  G.  Routzahn,  Associate  Director 
Zenas  L.  Potter,  Field  Surveyor 


Franz  Schneider,  Jr.,  Sanitarian 
Mary  Swain  Routzahn,  Special  Agent 
Walter  Storey,  Special  Agent 


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DEPARTMENT  OF  SURVEYS  AND 

EXHIBITS 

The  Department  was  organized  in  1912.  Its  purpose  is  to 
study  and  develop  the  social  survey  and  the  social  exhibit  as 
measures  for  community  improvement.  Relying  upon  the  con¬ 
structive  power  of  facts  in  efforts  toward  social  advance,  the  sur¬ 
vey  is  regarded  as  a  means  of  discovering  and  interpreting  the 
constituent  elements  in  social  problems  as  related  to  given  com¬ 
munities;  and  the  exhibit,  with  its  accompanying  educational 
campaigns,  as  a  means  of  putting  facts  in  such  simple  and  graphic 
form  as  to  make  them  as  far  as  possible  part  of  the  common 
knowledge  of  the  community. 

The  method  of  the  Department  is  from  time  to  time  to  conduct 
typical  surveys  and  typical  exhibits;  to  collect  and  study  re¬ 
ports,  pamphlets,  bibliographies,  photographs,  drawings,  models 
and  other  records  of  survey  and  exhibit  experience  and  method ; 
and  to  publish  practical  helps  on  survey  and  exhibit  work. 
The  Department  also  assists  communities  in  organizing 
local  support,  financial  and  otherwise,  for  surveys  and  exhibits; 
makes  a  limited  number  of  preliminary  local  diagnoses  to  dis¬ 
cover  the  most  important  lines  of  investigation  to  be  followed 
and  to  outline  methods  of  conducting  the  particular  survey;  it 
is  also  able  to  put  local  committees  in  touch  with  investigators 
and  with  survey  and  exhibit  directors.  Its  activities  further 
include  the  devising  of  methods  for  organizing  community  forces 
in  order  to  make  survey  findings  practically  effective  and  for 
conducting  campaigns  of  education  on  social  welfare  topics; 
and  advising  on  exhibit  construction  and  plans  for  using  exhibits. 

The  Department’s  activities  are  shaped  in  large  measure  by 
two  committees;  a  directing  or  departmental  committee  and  a 
general  advisory  committee.  The  departmental  committee  con¬ 
sists  of  Miss  Mary  E.  Richmond,  chairman;  Dr.  Leonard  P. 
Ayres;  Dr.  Livingston  Farrand  (until  February,  1914);  John  M. 
Glenn;  Paul  U.  Kellogg,  and  Francis  H.  McLean.  Its  object 
is  to  advise  with  the  director  of  the  Department  as  to  policies 
and  methods. 


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The  advisory  committee  is  composed  of  twenty-two  persons 
connected  with  as  many  different  social  agencies  whose  work  is 
national  in  scope.  The  members  serve  personally,  however,  and 
not  as  official  representatives  of  their  organizations.  The  com¬ 
mittee’s  purpose  is  to  give  the  Department  the  benefit  of  the 
experience  and  information  of  these  persons  and  to  secure  better 
co-ordination  and  fuller  co-operation  in  dealing  with  particular 
communities.  The  members  are: 

Dr.  Livingston  Farrand,  Chairman,  Executive  Secretary,  National 
Association  for  the  Study  and  Prevention  of  Tuberculosis 
(until  February,  1914). 

H.  S.  Braucher,  Secretary,  Playground  and  Recreation  Association  of 
America. 

Miss  Mabel  Cratty,  General  Secretary,  National  Board  Young  Women’s 
Christian  Association. 

Dr.  George  J.  Fisher,  Secretary,  Physical  Department,  International  Com¬ 
mittee  Young  Men’s  Christian  Association. 

Fred  S.  Hall,  Member  of  Staff,  Russell  Sage  Foundation. 

Miss  Jean  Hamilton,  General  Secretary,  National  League  for  Women 
Workers. 

Alexander  Johnson,  General  Secretary,  National  Conference  of  Charities 
and  Corrections  (to  1913). 

Florence  Kelley,  General  Secretary,  National  Consumers’  League. 

Miss  Gertrude  Knipp,  Executive  Secretary,  American  Association  for 
Study  and  Prevention  of  Infant  Mortality. 

Louis  H.  Levin,  Secretary,  National  Conference  of  Jewish  Charities. 

Owen  R.  Lovejoy,  General  Secretary,  National  Child  Labor  Committee. 

Charles  S.  Macfarland,  Executive  Secretary,  Federal  Council  of  Churches 
of  Christ  in  America. 

Thomas  M.  Mulry,  President,  St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Society. 

Mrs.  Percy  V.  Pennybacker,  President,  General  Federation  of  Women’s 
Clubs. 

Dr.  Thomas  W.  Salmon,  Director  of  Special  Studies,  National  Committee 
for  Mental  Hygiene. 

Flavel  Shurtleff,  Secretary,  National  Committee  on  City  Planning. 

Dr.  William  F.  Snow,  General  Secretary,  American  Social  Hygiene  As¬ 
sociation,  Inc. 


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Lawrence  Veiller,  Secretary  and  Director,  National  Housing  Association. 
Richard  B.  Watrous,  Secretary,  American  Civic  Association. 

Clinton  Rogers  Woodruff,  Secretary,  National  Municipal  League. 

Also  members  of  the  departmental  committee  ex-offfcio. 

The  chief  surveys  undertaken  by  the  Department  include : — 
The  public  health  and  public  school  situations  in  Atlanta;  path¬ 
finder  survey  of  Scranton;  the  Newark  (N.  J.)  Department  of 
Public  Health;  a  limited  survey  of  Newburgh,  N.  Y. ;  a  pre¬ 
liminary  survey  study  of  Ithaca  (N.  Y.) ;  the  public  health  situa¬ 
tion  in  Ithaca;  the  Topeka  Improvement  Survey,  including 
public  health,  delinquency  and  corrections,  municipal  adminis¬ 
tration,  and  industrial  conditions ;  and  a  general  survey  of  Spring- 
field,  Illinois,  embracing  investigations  into  charities,  city  and 
county  administration,  the  correctional  system,  housing,  in¬ 
dustrial  and  labor  conditions,  public  health,  public  schools, 
recreation  and  the  care  of  mental  defectives,  the  insane  and 
alcoholics. 

The  Department  directed  the  planning,  preparation  and  ad¬ 
ministration  of  the  Springfield  Survey  Exhibition,  and  the  Peoria 
(Illinois)  Child  Welfare  Exhibition.  It  has  also  advised  and  other¬ 
wise  co-operated  in  the  preparation  and  use  of  many  other  types 
of  social  exhibits  and  other  graphic  material  for  expositions, 
national  organizations  and  state  and  local  committees. 


PUBLICATIONS 


The  various  reports  contain  detailed  constructive  recom¬ 
mendations,  and  together  with  the  findings  as  to  conditions, 
form  studies  believed  to  be  of  interest  and  use  in  other  com¬ 
munities. 

The  prices  given  below  are  charged  to  help  meet  the  cost  of 
printing  and  mailing  and  thus  make  possible  a  wider  distribution 
of  the  publications. 

SE1  THE  SOCIAL  SURVEY.  Paul  U.  Kellogg,  Shelby  M. 
Harrison,  and  others. 

Papers  defining  the  social  survey  and  describing  a  method 
of  organizing  the  community  backing.  52  pp.  1912.  15 

cents. 

SE2  THE  NEWBURGH  SURVEY.  Zenas  L.  Potter,  field  direc¬ 
tor;  Franz  Schneider,  Jr.;  and  others. 

Reports  of  limited  investigations  of  public  health,  hous¬ 
ing,  delinquency,  recreation,  charities,  industrial  conditions, 
municipal  administration,  public  schools  and  the  public 
library  in  Newburgh,  N.  Y.  104  pp.  1913.  15  cents. 

SEza  SCRANTON  IN  QUICK  REVIEW.  Department  of  Sur¬ 
veys  and  Exhibits,  Russell  Sage  Foundation. 

The  report  of  a  pathfinder  survey  of  living  conditions 
which  point  to  the  need  of  a  more  intensive  local  survey — 
made  for  the  Century  Club  of  Scranton.  31  pp.  1913.  10 

cents. 

SE2c  RELATION  OF  THE  SOCIAL  SURVEY  TO  PUBLIC 

HEALTH  AUTHORITIES.  Franz  Schneider,  Jr. 

Paper  read  before  the  Third  Congress  of  the  Canadian 
Public  Health  Association,  Regina,  Sask.  4  pp.  1913. 
2  cents. 

SE2d  SOCIAL  SURVEY:  A  BIBLIOGRAPHY.  Zenas  L. 

Potter,  compiler. 

Contains  references  to  the  more  important  printed  matter 

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on  social  surveys  available  prior  to  December,  1913.  8  pp. 

19 13.  5  cents.  (Out  of  print.) 

THE  TOPEKA  IMPROVEMENT  SURVEY,  TOPEKA,  KANSAS; 
in  four  parts: 

SE3  PUBLIC  HEALTH  SURVEY  OF  TOPEKA,  KANSAS. 

Franz  Schneider,  Jr. 

A  report  presenting  and  analyzing  the  important  local 
facts  on  births,  death  and  disease  in  Topeka,  general  sani¬ 
tary  conditions,  and  the  work  of  the  city  health  depart¬ 
ment.  98  pp.  1914.  25  cents. 

SE4  DELINQUENCY  AND  CORRECTIONS  IN  TOPEKA. 

Zenas  L.  Potter. 

A  report  covering  police  department,  court  penalties, 
city  and  county  jails,  probation  and  parole  for  adults,  ju¬ 
venile  delinquency,  and  crime  prevention  work.  64  pp. 
1914.  15  cents. 

SE5  MUNICIPAL  ADMINISTRATION  IN  TOPEKA.  D.  O. 

Decker. 

A  report  covering  the  legal  basis  and  limitations  in 
Topeka  public  work,  general  administrative  and  financial 
procedures,  and  department  administration  in  the  city 
government.  43  pp.  1914.  15  cents. 

SE6  INDUSTRIAL  CONDITIONS  IN  TOPEKA.  Zenas  L. 

Potter. 

A  report  covering  labor  conditions  in  the  Santa  Fe  car 
shops,  general  labor  conditions  in  the  city,  and  the  situa¬ 
tion  as  to  labor  legislation.  56  pp.  1914.  15  cents. 

THE  SPRINGFIELD  SURVEY,  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS;  in 
ten  parts : 

SE7  PUBLIC  SCHOOLS  OF  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS. 

Leonard  P.  Ayres,  Ph.D. 

A  survey  of  Springfield’s  schools,  including:  the  school 
plant,  the  children,  the  teaching  force,  class  room  instruc¬ 
tion,  course  of  study,  financial  administration,  medical 
inspection,  intermediate  schools,  vocational  education, 
educational  extension,  etc.  152  pp.  1914.  25  cents. 

(Also  available  through  the  Division  of  Education,  Rus¬ 
sell  Sage  Foundation.) 


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SE8  CARE  OF  MENTAL  DEFECTIVES,  THE  INSANE, 

AND  ALCOHOLICS  IN  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS.  W. 

L.  Treadway,  M.D.,  for  the  National  Committee  for  Men¬ 
tal  Hygiene,  New  York  City. 

A  study  of  methods  of  finding  and  caring  for  mental 
defectives  in  the  schools  and  in  the  community;  commit¬ 
ment,  treatment  and  discharge  of  the  insane  and  care  of 
alcoholics.  46  pp.  1915.  15  cents. 

SE9  RECREATION  IN  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS.  Lee  F. 

Hanmer  and  Clarence  A.  Perry. 

A  survey  of  Springfield  recreation,  including:  the  homes, 
schools,  parks,  streets,  library,  museum,  semi-public  in¬ 
stitutions,  commercial  amusements,  athletics,  festivals, 
pageants  and  public  celebrations.  133  pp.  1914.  25 

cents. 

(Also  available  through  the  Department  of  Recreation, 
Russell  Sage  Foundation.) 

SE10  HOUSING  IN  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS.  John  Ihlder. 

A  study  by  the  National  Housing  Association.  Deals 
with  housing  tendencies  and  the  legal  aspects  of  housing 
in  Springfield.  24  pp.  1914.  15  cents. 

SE11  THE  CHARITIES  OF  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS. 

Francis  H.  McLean. 

A  survey  of  the  Springfield  charities,  including:  the 
children  in  Springfield  institutions,  the  charitable  care  of 
the  sick,  family  disabilities  and  causes  of  distress,  the 
social  agencies  dealing  with  families,  financial  considera¬ 
tions,  etc.  185  pp.  1915.  25  cents. 

SE12  INDUSTRIAL  CONDITIONS  IN  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLI¬ 
NOIS.  Louise  C.  Odencrantz  and  Zenas  L.  Potter. 

A  survey  of  work  conditions  and  industrial  relations,  in¬ 
cluding:  health  hazards  in  industry;  hours  of  labor; 
child  labor ;  wages  and  regularity  of  employment ;  social 
effects  of  work  conditions;  efforts  for  industrial  better¬ 
ment,  etc.  150  pp.  1916.  25  cents. 

SE13  CITY  AND  COUNTY  ADMINISTRATION  IN  SPRING- 

FIELD,  ILLINOIS  (In  press).  D.  O.  Decker. 

A  survey  of  the  efficiency  of  the  public  offices,  including 


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assessment  and  collection  of  taxes  and  other  revenues; 
disbursement  methods;  organization  of  city  adminis¬ 
trative  functions;  budget;  city  department  efficiency; 
county  administrative  work;  the  park  board;  publicity 
and  reports,  etc.  150  pp.  1916.  25  cents. 

SE14  PUBLIC  HEALTH  IN  SPRINGFIELD,  ILLINOIS. 

Franz  Schneider,  Jr. 

A  survey  of  Springfield’s  public  health,  including: 
infant  mortality,  contagious  diseases  of  children,  the 
tuberculosis  situation,  typhoid  fever,  venereal  diseases, 
city  water  supply,  sewerage  and  sewage  disposal,  wells 
and  privies,  milk  and  food  supply,  and  city  health  depart¬ 
ment.  159  pp.  1915.  25  cents. 

SE15  THE  CORRECTIONAL  SYSTEM  OF  SPRINGFIELD, 

ILLINOIS.  Zenas  L.  Potter. 

A  survey  of  Springfield’s  correctional  system,  includ¬ 
ing:  the  dispostion  of  cases  of  arrest,  the  use  of  fines, 
hours  to  leave  town,  suspended  sentence,  jail  sentences, 
indeterminate  sentence  and  parole;  probation  of  adults 
and  children;  detention  of  children;  the  juvenile  court; 
legislation  needs;  and  the  work  and  policy  of  the  police 
department.  185  pp.  1915.  2 5  cents. 

SE16  SPRINGFIELD:  THE  SURVEY  SUMMED  UP  (In 

preparation).  Shelby  M.  Harrison. 

A  summary  of  the  nine  reports  giving  attention  to  the 
interrelated  character  of  some  of  the  problems,  and  includ¬ 
ing  a  plan  for  practical  “follow-up”  methods  of  utilizing 
the  public  interest  and  knowledge  of  conditions  growing 
out  of  the  survey.  1916.  15  cents. 

SE17  THE  DISPROPORTION  OF  TAXATION  IN  PITTS¬ 
BURGH.  Shelby  M.  Harrison. 

Summary  of  findings  in  an  investigation  of  taxation  in 
Pittsburgh,  as  a  part  of  the  Pittsburgh  Survey.  15  pp. 
1915.  10  cents. 

SE18  AN  EFFECTIVE  EXHIBITION  OF  A  COMMUNITY 
SURVEY.  Article  reprinted  from  The  American  City,  Jan¬ 
uary,  1915. 

A  brief  description  of  the  Springfield  Survey  Exhibition. 
8  pp.  1915.  5  cents. 


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SE19  A  SURVEY  OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH  SITUATION, 
ITHACA,  N.  Y.  Franz  Schneider,  Jr. 

A  study  of  the  public  health  situation  in  a  small  city  which 
has  eradicated  much  of  the  excess  sickness  and  death  occur- 
ring  in  the  field  of  preventable  disease.  36  pp.  1915.  15  cents. 

SE20  DEPARTMENT  OF  SURVEYS  AND  EXHIBITS,  RUSSELL 
SAGE  FOUNDATION.  Activities  and  Publications.  Free. 

SE21  A  SURVEY  OF  THE  ACTIVITIES  OF  MUNICIPAL 
HEALTH  DEPARTMENTS  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES. 
Franz  Schneider,  Jr. 

An  investigation  to  obtain  an  approximate  idea  of  the 
status  of  health  department  work  in  the  United  States. 
24  pp.  1916.  20  cents. 

SE22  THE  SOCIAL  SURVEY.  A  BIBLIOGRAPHY.  Zenas 
L.  Potter,  Compiler. 

A  comprehensive,  not  a  selective,  reference  list  of  publica¬ 
tions  on  social  surveys  available  up  to  December,  1915. 
Limited  to  reports  of  surveys  in  the  United  States  and  Can¬ 
ada.  16  pp.  1915.  5  cents. 

(Also  available  through  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation 
Library.) 


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PUBLICATIONS  OF  OTHER  DEPARTMENTS  OF 
THE  RUSSELL  SAGE  FOUNDATION 

Publications  presenting  the  results  of  a  wide  range  of  studies 
made  in  fields  similar  or  related  to  those  represented  by  the  va¬ 
rious  survey  reports  are  available  through  other  Departments 
of  the  Russell  Sage  Foundation.  Lists  of  departmental  publica¬ 
tions  may  be  obtained  by  addressing  any  of  the  following  at  130 
East  22d  Street,  New  York  City: 

CHARITY  ORGANIZATION  DEPARTMENT 
COMMITTEE  ON  WOMEN’S  WORK 
DEPARTMENT  OF  CHILD  HELPING 
DEPARTMENT  OF  RECREATION 
DIVISION  OF  EDUCATION 
DIVISION  OF  REMEDIAL  LOANS 
RUSSELL  SAGE  FOUNDATION  LIBRARY 


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RUSSELL  SAGE  FOUNDATION  PUBLICATIONS 

The  Pittsburgh  Survey.  Six  volumes  edited  by  Paul  U.  Kellogg.  Price 
per  set,  postpaid,  $10. 

The  Pittsburgh  District:  Civic  Frontage.  $2.70. 

Wage-earning  Pittsburgh.  $2.72. 

Women  and  the  Trades.  By  Elizabeth  Beardsley  Butler.  $1.72. 

Work- Accidents  and  the  Law.  By  Crystal  Eastman.  $1.72. 

The  Steel  Workers.  By  John  A.  Fitch.  $1.73. 

Homestead:  The  Households  of  a  Mill  Town.  By  Margaret  F.  Bying- 
ton.  $1.70. 

West  Side  Studies.  In  two  volumes. 

Boyhood  and  Lawlessness.  The  Neglected  Girl.  By  Ruth  S.  True. 
$2.00. 

The  Middle  West  Side.  By  Otho  G.  Cartwright.  Mothers  Who  Must 
Earn.  By  Katharine  Anthony.  $2.00. 

Housing  Reform.  By  Lawrence  Veiller.  $1.25. 

Carrying  Out  the  City  Plan.  By  Flavel  Shurtleff.  In  collaboration  with 
Frederick  Law  Olmsted.  $2.00. 

Medical  Inspection  of  Schools.  By  Luther  Halsey  Gulick,  M.D.,  and 
Leonard  P.  Ayres,  Ph.D.  $1.50. 

Wider  Use  of  the  School  Plant.  By  Clarence  Arthur  Perry.  $1.25. 
Outdoor  Relief  in  Missouri.  By  George  A.  Warfield.  $1.00. 

The  Almshouse.  By  Alexander  Johnson.  $1.25. 

San  Francisco  Relief  Survey.  $3.50. 

One  Thousand  Homeless  Men.  By  Alice  Willard  Solenberger.  $1.25. 

Social  Work  in  Hospitals.  By  Ida  M.  Cannon,  R.N.  $1.50. 

Record  Keeping  for  Child  Helping  Institutions.  By  Georgia  G.  Ralph. 
$ 1.50 . 

Care  and  Education  of  Crippled  Children  in  the  United  States.  By 
Edith  Reeves.  $2.00. 

Prison  Reform.  By  Chas.  R.  Henderson,  F.  B.  Sanborn,  F.  H.  Wines  and 
Others.  $2.67. 

Penal  and  Reformatory  Institutions.  By  Charles  R.  Henderson  and 
Others.  $2.70. 

The  Standard  of  Living  Among  Workingmen’s  Families  in  New  York 
City.  By  Robert  Coit  Chapin,  Ph.D.  $ 2.00 . 

Workingmen’s  Insurance  in  Europe.  By  Lee  K.  Frankel  and  Miles  M. 
Dawson,  with  the  co-operation  of  Louis  I.  Dublin.  $2.70. 

Fatigue  and  Efficiency.  By  Josephine  Goldmark.  $2.00. 

The  Longshoremen.  By  Charles  B.  Barnes.  $2.00. 

Working  Girls  in  Evening  Schools.  By  Mary  Van  Kleeck.  $1.50. 

Women  in  the  Bookbinding  Trade.  By  Mary  Van  Kleeck.  $1.50. 

Artificial  Flower  Makers.  By  Mary  Van  Kleeck.  $1.50. 

Handbook  of  Settlements.  Edited  by  Robert  A.  Woods  and  Albert  J. 
Kennedy.  $1.50. 


SURVEY  ASSOCIATES,  INC. 
PUBLISHERS  FOR  THE  RUSSELL  SAGE  FOUNDATION 
105  EAST  22d  STREET,  NEW  YORK 


